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Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Now, as so very often, I feel there's too much to do, and not enough time in which to do the things I'd really like to do. On my plate:
2 resumes,
letter to one contract which hasn't paid for work I did,
application to college,
and I haven't gone running since last Friday!

One of the Internet super-sites, those which provide free mail service (actually, in exchange for you getting and passing along loads of advertising) sent me, among their "picks" a reference to an MIT site exhibiting little known art showing the visit of Commodore Perry to Japan in 1853-54. "On 18 July 1953, residents of Uraga on the outskirts of Edo, the sprawling capital of feudal Japan, saw 4 foreign warships enter their harbor under a cloud of black smoke."

The exhibit is directed by professors John W. Dowe and Shigeru Miyagawa.

You are the Gender Abolitionist type of feminist. This means that you
feel the best way to destroy patriarchal oppression is to rid ourselves
of misguided gender roles, and instead live in a society that does not
make such marked assumptions about gender differences. The Gender
Abolitionist is culturally radical, but rather conservative when it
comes to sexual liberation and politics. You have a strong sense of
human rights for all. In fact, you are actually a very moral person.
You don't see people in terms of gender and are thus very philosophical
in order to perceive the world in such a manner. You think people
shouldn't identify others in terms of gender. When most people see a
person, the first thing they think is "That person is a woman" or "That
person is a man", but they do NOT think "That person is a
short-fingernail". Most make someone's gender their IDENTITY, but
fingernail length would never be considered part of their identity. A
gender abolitionist would claim gender should be like fingernail
length--it shouldn't be part of someone's identity. By making gender a
part of identity, difference is emphasized and oppression is often
justified. Thus, gender shouldn't be regarded to such a large extent by
society. You are mostly concerned with seeing women become fully
equalized with men by eliminating gender roles, as these roles oppress
women.